In May this year I joined Leadership Victoria (LV) in the role of Marketing & Communications Manager. I’m responsible for the branding, marketing and communications for the organisation, such as managing our website, our e-newsletters to Alumni and general subscribers, public relations, research, advertising and brochures. I get to work with an incredibly high calibre [...]
Leadership Victoria (LV) council member Jane Tongs (WCLP ’93) fell into the world of commerce almost by accident. Not confident that she would get the grades required to study medicine after secondary school, she was looking for another field where she could use her talents. “An uncle said to me ‘why don’t you do business?’ [...]
What do you do at Leadership Victoria? I’m the Office Administrator which means I deal with all office related manners including IT and accounts and event bookings. How long have you worked at LV? Almost 12 months. What did you do before joining LV? I’ve got a degree in fashion management, I worked in the [...]
Jill Calder, director of Tango Public Relations, has more than 20 years experience in the marketing field. She focuses on public affairs with a particular emphasis on issues management and community relations. How did you come to be on LV’s Council? I did the Williamson Community Leadership Program in 1997 and was involved in a [...]
What do you do at Leadership Victoria? I’m the Program Manager for Ideas; I pick up on a lot of contemporary ideas and recent research around leadership, culture and change and I filter these ideas into the LV programs and events. I am responsible for the Leader-in-Residence program and I feel very lucky to be working [...]
Matthew Butlin started his career as an economist at the RBA, progressing to prominent roles in the public and private sector, and is now the Chair of the Australian Competition and Efficiency Commission and sits on Leadership Victoria’s Council. He is also the subject of this month’s Council Profile. What do you value most [...]
What do you do at Leadership Victoria? I’m General Manager of the programming area, which means I have an oversight of all the programs we do as well as managing WCLP. So, since February 2008, I’ve worked on two levels – at a programming level with the day to day planning of WCLP and on [...]
Geoff Cosgriff (WCLP ’90) is the Director of Infocos P/L and is actively engaged as an Executive Coach, Mentor and Business Strategy advisor for a wide range of clients. He is also a member of Leadership Victoria’s Council and spoke to Jamie Cooke about his experience. How did you come to be on LV’s [...]
VicUrban CEO, Pru Sanderson, speaks about the organisation’s partnership with LV. How and why was VicUrban established? VicUrban was established as an amalgamated entity out of the Docklands Authority and the Urban Regional Land Corporation, URLC. The Docklands Authority was a single agent authority, URLC was a land agency fundamentally operating on the fringes of [...]
Stella Clark is an LV Council member, a member of LV’s Projects Advisory Group and the CEO of The Bio21 Cluster, a 22 member not-for-profit in the health and bio medical area. The vision for the Bio 21 Cluster is to solve health issues through innovation and collaboration by facilitating projects to enable this [...]
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